developing equanimity

developing equanimity

By Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U PanditaWINTER 2005

http://tricycle.org/magazine/perfect-balance/

Free workshop on the Way of the Bodhisattva

Free workshop on the Way of the Bodhisattva

http://www.shambhala.com/way-of-the-bodhisattva-workshop/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=watch+the+videos+or+download+the+audio&utm_content=Walking+the+Path+of+the+Bodhisattva+%3F%3F+A+Free+Online+Workshop+and+More&utm_campaign=Way+of+the+Bodhisattva+downloads

grief as a path to wholeness

Grief as a path to wholeness

by Frank Ostaseski

https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/blog/grief-path-wholeness/

Awakening the Bodhisattva

Awakening the Bodhisattva

BY TAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON, ANNE KLEIN, EJO MCMULLEN AND VENERABLE PANNAVATI| SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

http://www.lionsroar.com/awakening-the-bodhisattva/

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Dhammatalks.net Resources

Dhammatalks.net Resources

http://www.dhammatalks.net/

What’s at Stake as the Dharma Goes Modern?

http://tricycle.org/magazine/whats-stake-dharma-goes-modern/

What’s at Stake as the Dharma Goes Modern?

An exploration of the background assumptions of the modern age and the unique challenges they present

By Linda Heuman

FALL 2012

Buddhistdoor: Finding Excellence, By Joseph Houseal

1. http://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/finding-excellence-part-1-of-course-they-donrsquot-talk-about-it

2. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/finding-excellence-part-2-a-tradition-of-transmission

Finding Excellence

By Joseph Houseal

Researching endangered dance traditions as I do, it is usual to chronicle the problems, challenges of discovery, along with the qualities of vanishing practices. So it was with delight and surprise, during fieldwork in the eastern tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh this summer, that we encountered a number of monasteries where Cham dance practice remains strong, vibrant, and firmly rooted in tantric visualization realization practice—examples of excellence that serve everyone, today and tomorrow.

Being Without Self, Jeff Shore's Talks

https://beingwithoutself.org/dharma-talks/transcribed-talks-pdf/

Transcribed Retreat Talks (pdf)

Transcriptions of retreat lectures by Jeff (with some translations):

• Comfortably Seated Under The Rose-Apple Tree, Days: 1-4 (2016) (UPDATED)
• How to Meditate: The Classic Zazen Manual For Today (2015)
• Where Do You Draw the Line? (2014)
• Ordinary Mind Is The Way – Cultivating Practice (2014)
  • Mintea comună este Calea (Ordinary Mind Is The Way)
• The Pearl Revealed – Retreat Lectures (2013)
• Exhortations For Those Who Do Rouse The Doubt – Parts 2 and 3 (2012)
• Exhortations For Those Who Do Rouse The Doubt – Part 1 (2011)
• Enjoying the Way (2010)
• Great Doubt: Getting Stuck & Breaking Through The Real Koan (2010)
  • Der Große Zweifel
• No Bull: Zen Oxherding Pictures for the Modern World (2009)
  • El No-Toro: Cuadros Zen del Pastoreo del Buey para el Mundo Moderno
  • Kein Ochse: Die Ochsenbilder des Zen – gedeutet für die Gegenwart
• Clarifying the Mind of Nirvana (2008)
• The Constant Practice of Right Effort (2008)
  • A Helyes Erőfeszítés (Right Effort)
• A Rinzai-Soto Dialogue (2007)
  • Rinzai Szoto Párbeszéd (A Rinzai-Soto Dialogue)
  • Zen Rinzai Una introducción a la práctica
• Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism: Zen Buddhism in the Light of Religious Experience (2007)
  • A vallási tapasztalat a zen buddhizmus fényében (Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism)
  • Experienţa religioasă în lumina Budismului Zen (Religious Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism)
• Encounters on the Way (a diary of Jeff’s 2006 sabbatical)
• Becoming One and Being Without Self (2005)
  • Eén worden en zijn zonder zelf
  • Eggyévállás (Becoming One)
  • Convirtiéndonos en Uno y ser sin YO
• No-self in Zen Buddhism (2004)
  • Не-я в дзен-буддизме (No Self In Zen Buddhism)
  • Geen-zelf in het Zenboeddhisme
  • Intet Selv i Zen Buddhismen
• Principles of Zen Practice: Illuminating the Source (2003)
  • Principes van de zenpraktijk: Het belichten van de bron
  • Principios de la práctica zen: Iluminando el Origen
  • A zen gyakorlat alape (Principles of Zen Practice)
• Basics of Zen Practice: Just Be One (2002)
  • Basisbeginselen van de Zenbeoefening: Wees alleen maar één
  • Práctica Básica de Zen: Ser Sólo Uno
  • Practica Zen, Notiuni de baza: Doar fii unul (Just Be One)
  • Основы практики дзен (Just Be One)
• The Unconditioned (2001)
  • Het ongeconditioneerde
  • A Feltétel Nélküli (The Unconditioned)
  • Необусловленное (The Unconditioned)
• Zen in Early Buddhism (2000)
  • Zen in het vroege Boeddhisme
• The Source of Zen – Who Transmits What? (1998)
  • De bron van Zen – Wie draagt wat over?
  • A Zen Forrása (The Source of Zen)
• Koan Zen From the Inside (1995)
  • Koan-Zen von Innen

Korean Zen Resources

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buddhism/comments/4u4yfr/resources_on_seon_buddhism/

Korean Zen Resources

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[–]TheHeartOfTuxes[🍰] 4 points 10 hours ago* 

The Way Of Korean Zen by Zen Master Kusan Sunim is a wonderful classic, exemplary of Soen.

Another great classic is Only Don't Know by Zen Master Seung Sahn. This is a collection of some of Seung Sahn's early teaching letters. His school has a collection of many thousands of letters in which the master responds to all kinds of issues that we all share in life and in practice. Unfortunately, this pdf is without images, so the very useful teaching of the Zen Circle (p164) is missing/difficult to understand.

One of the hallmarks of Soen is emphasis on questioning; but it must be understood what questioning refers to. It doesn't mean the discursive mind asking a lot of questions. It means the mind before thinking. Soen's run-up to that mind, for people who are not familiar with it, does tend to involve using a big question that clears away all other thoughts.

But different schools and teachers have different approaches. Some may emphasize concentration practices, or chanting, though a broad variety of practices tend to be available in most Korean Zen schools.

Another hallmark of Soen is the communal nature of practice. Community and group practice is used both to train the student in putting down self-centered opinion, and also to harness the group energy to achieve things that would be difficult or impossible when attempted alone.

In any case, need it even be said that reading is only the first little shred, and that you should soon get real teaching and real Soen experience by visiting a Korean center or temple. No need to commit right away; you can visit for a talk or public service and enjoy!

Of all Buddhist schools, Korean Zen/Soen is very much action-style. Don't mull and brood; don't waste time making many ideas; only do it! Vibrant, lively, vigorous, engaged. So taking action and actually visiting a center and trying out the practice is very, very necessary in order to start understanding Soen. It can't be done from an armchair or even alone on your own meditation mat — not until you have digested a great deal of teaching and have aligned with it in a stable manner.

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Edit: Zen Master Seung Sahn's book Dropping Ashes On The Buddha has a teaching about the Zen Circle, along with an image of it, on page 5. This book is notorious for having some teachings that are fairly accessible to the common reader and some that fly over the head of even intermediate students. Once you study with a master and undertake practice, the teachings come clear little by little (or sometimes in leaps and bounds); so don't get attached to the words, either by clinging or by rejecting.

One of the benefits of the teaching about the Zen Circle is that it helps you identify where a person's teaching or action is coming from. For example, the statements of some high-profile contributors on /r/Zen are at the 180° position (emptiness) at best, and perhaps the commenters have had some experiences at that level; but their statements are often mistaken as being representative of Zen when really they are just stuck part-way, attached to emptiness. There's a lot of territory between mere emptiness and complete attainment; and even complete attainment at 360° does not finish the training, because a true master can move effortlessly between any perspective, any position on the circle, according to the situation.

OMICS International : Buddhism

http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Buddhism

OMICS International : Buddhism

Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses, Ven Analayo

https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/from-craving.pdf

https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/from-grasping.pdf

Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses

• From Craving to Liberation (PDF). Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses 1. Buddhist Association of the United States. 2009.
• From Grasping to Emptiness (PDF). Excursions into the Thought-world of the Pali Discourses 2. Buddhist Association of the United States. 2010.

The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal, Ven Analayo

https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/4-publikationen/hamburg-buddhist-studies/hamburgup-hbs01-analayo.pdf

The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal

• The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal (PDF). Hamburg University Press. 2010.

The Legality of Bhikkhuni Ordination, Ven Analayo

https://web.archive.org/web/20140814022246/http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/analayo/Legality.pdf

http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/analayo/Legality.pdf

http://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/analayo/LegalitywithTranslations.pdf

The Legality of Bhikkhuni Ordination

"The Legality of Bhikkhunī Ordination" (PDF) 20. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Special 20th Anniversary Issue, D. Keown and C. Prebish (ed.),. 2013: 310–333. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on 14 August 2014. (reprinted as a booklet together with translations into Sinhala, Thai and Burmese: West Malaysia: Selangor Buddhist Vipassanā Meditation Society, 2013; and New York: Buddhist Association of the United States, 2014). PDF

Cultivate Tranquility, Harvest Insight

http://www.lionsroar.com/cultivate-tranquility-harvest-insight/

Cultivate Tranquility, Harvest Insight

BY AJAHN BRAHMAVAMSO| JULY 3, 2016

Meditation stages according to the Thai Forest Tradition

Buddha’s Birds

http://www.lionsroar.com/buddhas-birds/

Buddha’s Birds

BY ANDREA MILLER| JULY 4, 2016

From the swan that Siddhartha nursed as a boy to the fantastical Garuda—Andrea Miller explores the intriguing role that birds play in Buddhist mythology and teachings.

RelStudies: Not In That Dead Body

http://www.religiousstudiesproject.com/2016/02/04/not-in-that-dead-body/

Not In That Dead Body

“Who are you? What are you? Where is your soul or spirit? It’s not in that dead body…” – Dr. Robert White, Neurosurgeon and Bioethicist

Lion's roar: What is karma

http://www.lionsroar.com/panel-the-law-of-karma/

What is karma and how does it work

The Buddha taught that because of karma, beings are bound to the ever-turning wheel of rebirth. Only when a person stops believing in the existence of a permanent and real self can he or she become free from karma. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jan Chozen Bays, and Jeffrey Hopkins discuss what that means.

External Mindfulness, Secure (Non)-Attachment, and Healing Relational Trauma: Emerging Models of Wellness for Modern Buddhists and Buddhist Modernism

https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/viewFile/170/185

External Mindfulness, Secure (Non)-Attachment, and Healing Relational Trauma: Emerging
Models of Wellness for Modern Buddhists and Buddhist Modernism

by Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida

Differences between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/snapshot02.htm

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/schools1.htm

http://www.alanpeto.com/buddhism/understanding-mahayana-theravada/

Differences between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism

by Buddhanet

The Unconscious Motivations for Meditation Practice, by J.Engler

https://mettarefuge.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/the-unconscious-motivations-for-meditation-practice/

The Unconscious Motivations for Meditation Practice

2011/12/09 BY STEVEN GOODHEART 

These remarks are excerpted from a day-long program given by Jack Engler at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (BCBS) on November 1, l997. Jack has had a long association with Dharma study and practice. He studied Pali language and Abhidhamma at the Post-Graduate Institute of Buddhist Studies in Nalanda, Bihar, and practiced meditation for several years in India with Anagarika Munindraji and Dipa Ma. He also studied with the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw in Burma. He is co-author of Transformations of Consciousness (Shambhala, l986), and has been a clinical psychologist for more than twenty years. Jack is on the BCBS board of directors, and teaches in Barre from time to time.